ILP Plugin Payment

• Overview
• Configuration
  • Client/Peer
  • Server
• Integrating Other Systems
  • connectPayment
  • getPaymentDetails
  • sendPayment
  • Event: Money

Overview

ILP Plugin Payment is a base class that can be extended to integrate different payment systems. These integrations are assumed to be payment-based, in that one side sends a payment to the other side and then the other side detects the incoming settlement.

Configuration

• If you want anybody to be able to connect to you without updating your configuration, run the Server plugin. Pass "role": "server" into the plugin opts.

• If you're peering 1:1 or are connecting to someone running a server plugin, use the Client/Peer plugin. Pass "role": "client" or no "role" field into the plugin opts.

The examples below will not work with the base class, but will work with the derived classes.

Client/Peer

const PluginPayment = require('ilp-plugin-payment')

const plugin = new PluginPayment({
  role: 'client',
  server: 'btp+ws://example.com:1234',
  /* ... */
})

Server

const PluginPayment = require('ilp-plugin-payment')
const plugin = new PluginPayment({
  role: 'server',
  port: 1234,
  /* ... */
})

Integrating Other Systems

The following methods and events must be implemented in order to integrate a new payment system via this plugin.

For a blank starter, you can copy the snippet below. If you want to work off of an XRP ledger integration, use the XRP example code.

class MyPaymentPlugin extends PluginPayment {
  constructor (opts) {
    super(opts)
  }

  // You must also have a method in here somewhere which calls
  // this.emit('money', userId, amount) on incoming payments.

  async connectPayment () {
  }

  async sendPayment (details, amount) {
  }

  async getPaymentDetails (userId) {
  }
}

connectPayment

async connectPayment () -> Promise<void>

Connect to the settlement network. For example, on XRP:

async connect () {
  await this._api.connect()
  await this._api.connection.request({
    command: 'subscribe',
    accounts: [ this._address ]
  })

  // This is how we detect an incoming transaction. You'll need some equivalent of this
  // that calls this._handleMoney whenever a payment destined for this plugin comes in.
  this._api.connection.on('transaction', ev => {
    if (ev.validated && ev.transaction &&
      ev.transaction.TransactionType === 'Payment' &&
      ev.transaction.Destination === this._address &&
      ev.transaction.Amount.currency === 'XRP') {
      const userId = this._destinationTagToUserId(ev.transaction.DestinationTag)
      const value = new BigNumber(ev.transaction.Amount.value).times(1e6).toString()
      this.emitAsync('money', userId, value)
    }
  })
}

getPaymentDetails

async getPaymentDetails (userId: String) -> Promise<Object>

Create payment details associated with a given userId. There may be any number of different userIds, so the details given should be able to differentiate incoming payments from each other.

In the connectPayment example for XRP, for instance, the destinationTag is used to look up the userId for an incoming payment.

The result of this function will be passed into the peer's sendPayment function. On XRP, this function would be implemented like so:

async getPaymentDetails (userId) {
  return {
    address: this._address,
    destinationTag: this._userIdToDestinationTag(userId)
  }
}

sendPayment

async sendPayment (details: Object, amount: String) -> Promise<Object>

Before sendPayment is called, a get_payment_details RPC call is made. This calls the getPaymentDetails function on the peer's plugin, and returns the result. The result is passed into sendPayment as the details argument.

The amount is a a string-integer denominated in base ledger units. These base ledger units can be anything you want (so long as they're used consistently), but are typically the lowest divisible unit of the ledger. For example, XRP would use drops and Bitcoin would use Satoshis.

On XRP, the sendPayment function would look like this:

async sendMoney (details, amount) {
  const xrpAmount = new BigNumber(amount).div(1e6).toString()

  await this._txSubmitter('preparePayment', {
    source: {
      address: this._address,
      maxAmount: {
        value: xrpAmount,
        currency: 'XRP'
      }
    },
    destination: {
      address: details.address,
      tag: details.destinationTag,
      amount: {
        value: xrpAmount,
        currency: 'XRP'
      }
    }
  })
}

Event: Money

event 'money' (userId: String, amount: String)

This event is emitted when incoming funds are detected.

If the details resulting from getPaymentDetails(userId) are passed (as details) into your peer's sendPayment(details, amount), then you MUST be able to detect the incoming payment and emit it as userId, amount.

You can see how this is implemented in the example XRP plugin:

this._api.connection.on('transaction', ev => {
  if (ev.validated && ev.transaction &&
    ev.transaction.TransactionType === 'Payment' &&
    ev.transaction.Destination === this._address &&
    ev.transaction.Amount.currency === 'XRP') {
    const userId = this._destinationTagToUserId(ev.transaction.DestinationTag)
    const value = new BigNumber(ev.transaction.Amount.value).times(1e6).toString()
    this.emitAsync('money', userId, value)
  }
})